Unit 1


Week 1 - Red Kayak (Short Vowel VCCV, VCV)

Week 2 - Thunder Rose (Long Vowel VCV)

Week 3 - Island of the Blue Dolphins (Long Vowel Digraphs)

Week 4 - Satchel Paige (Adding -ed, -ing)

Week 5 - Ten Mile Day (Contractions)


Unit 2


Week 1 - At the Beach (Digraphs th, sh, ch, ph)

Week 2 - Hold the Flag High (Irregular Plurals)

Week 3 - The Ch'i-lin Purse (Vowel Sounds with r)

Week 4 - A Summer's Trade (Final Syllables -en, -an, -el, -le, -il)

Week 5 - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Final Syllables -er, -ar, -or)


Unit 3


Week 1 - The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine (Schwas)

Week 2 - Leonardo's Horse (Compound Words)

Week 3 - The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Consonant Sounds /j/, /ks/, /sk/, and /s/)

Week 4 - Mahalia Jackson (One Consonant or Two)

Week 5 - Special Effects in Film and Television (Prefixes un-, de-, dis-)


Unit 4


Week 1 - Weslandia (Words From Many Cultures)

Week 2 - Tripping Over the Lunch Lady (Prefixes over-, under-, sub-, super-, out-)

Week 3 - Exploding Ants (Homophones)

Week 4 - The Stormi Giovanni Club (Suffixes -ible, -able)

Week 5 - The Gymnast (Negative Prefixes)


Unit 5


Week 1 - The Skunk Ladder (Multisyllabic Words)

Week 2 - The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic (Related Words)

Week 3 - Talk with an Astronaut (Greek Word Parts)

Week 4 - Journey to the Center of the Earth (Latin Roots)

Week 5 - Ghost Towns of the American West (Greek Word Parts)


Unit 6


Week 1 - The Truth About Austin's Amazing Bats (Suffixes -ous, -sion, -ion, -ation)

Week 2 - The Mystery of Saint Matthew Island (Final Syllable -ant, -ent, -ance, -ence)

Week 3 - King Midas and the Golden Touch (Latin Roots)

Week 4 - The Hindenburg (Related Words)

Week 5 - Sweet Music in Harlem (Easily Confused Words)